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Simple guide to self hosted authentication? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'd like to set up my identity and authentication service for my self hosted applications but it is not a beginner friendly subject.

I'm aware of the various tools available; authentik, authelia, LLDAP, keycloak, etc and see lots of useful discussions on them which is great.

But I can't seem to find a beginner friendly introduction to setting up one or more of these tools that helps me understand the core concepts at the same time. Does such a thing exist?

I'd like to try out LLDAP and Authelia on my home lab and then possibly roll this out to my production services.

But every tutorial I've come across seems to assume a fair amount of knowledge that I don't think I have.

For instance if I deploy LLDAP what should I use as my base DN? And how can I seperate a homelab directory from a seperate production directory?

Any pointers gratefully received.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks. I have all of that. I've been at this for a while and am now looking to move to centralised authentication and access management because I've got everything else working as I want it. It's just not ideal to have to maintain seperate logins across each of the services that I'm running. Hence starting to look at authentication. I know it's complex and the original post was wondering if there is a nice simple introduction to the subject matter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yep if you've got the requisite skills the linuxserver guide is the best for authelia.

I've also ran Keycloak via the red hat documentation.

That's really as easy as it gets..if you want to learn, be prepared to pile through the documentation.